I felt it useful to provide a reliable source for such an outrageous national position. Lest some think it exaggeration or twisting of facts for humour or effect. It's not. Yikes. :-)
We are talking about Debian, a free software that cares a lot about the licensing of its packages. The licensing and authorship is an essential element of the project
Nested functions may require a context pointer of some kind, which the caller can't supply. One way of doing this: create a thunk on the stack that provides the context pointer, and use that address as the pointer to the nested function.
limping, halting, lame, crippled
c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Matthew 11:5:
Caeci vident, claudi ambulant […] The blind see, the lame walk […]
After trying to use libreoffice for typesetting and it being a pain to get the styles and formatting right I switched to Typst. Pretty impressed by it's Khmer language support. A lot lighter than latex or sile.
A friend of mine, really nice guy, is training as a lawyer at the moment. He has zero interest in law or justice, but heard that lawyers make a lot of money. Not too long about, programming went through a very similar phase. To be clear its not that I think programmers or lawyers shouldn't make good money, they absolutely should and it is deserved, its just it has the unfortunate side effect of attracting people who don't care about the field itself. For those people, they care as little as they can get away with and still be paid big money, and if LLM's allow them to do that at the cost of quality, they absolutely will.
I do think LLM's are making some genuine programmers less intelligent, but I think this type of person makes up a decent portion of its users too
I am using SQLite as document db for a side project for years now. Made a custom repository base class that can also store blobs in separate columns, so this type of data is not part of the json document. Today there is also jsonb [1], as far as I remember all functions work the same for json and jsonb.
Also the repo class stores write and delete timestamps as separate columns so I can have CDC. CDC is used for building cached view models and is pushed to object storage every 5 minutes for backup as NDJSON. Another process on home server is restoring the db every couple of minutes for second backup and ready to use DB in case it's needed.
I know there are things like Litestream, I wanted something in process and something that can send alerts on failed backups.
For me, it’s not a question of whether I like it, nor where we might move in the future, but purely what is proven currently. In my experience, as in my evals, any model, including notably Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol can and indeed do produce code that does not consider many edge cases, can be hard to maintain (especially Sol though it’s output has become markedly better with recent changes to Codex) and sometimes introduce bugs with visibly apparent issues. Existing test coverage doesn’t necessarily prevent such issues when changes or additions are made.
We also see such issues in what labs deliver in their own software products. We are not at the stage where a human shouldn’t sign off on code that they have tested and understood. A hypothetical future, I don’t really care for, we’d notice when labs stop shipping easily apparent bugs, though even then, I’d still feel there is a while in between that and not needing to assess the output anymore.
I am running Ornith 1.5 Q4 on my work issued laptop which surprisingly has 40gb of RAM and 20GB of “unified” VRAM.
I am getting 50t/s of prefill and 5-6t/s of inference.
You can’t get crazy with it, but it’s pretty nice to just let it work away at simpler prompts overnight or during lunch break or while I am working on other things.
Being able to literally a 30gb blob and then being able to talk with it while running on your machine it’s a different kind of magic compared to a far away magic in the cloud.
I'm sorry I expressed myself a bit poorly. I don't mean to say we don't know how to read the numbers. I mean we might be reading as a literal numeral something that was meant to be read in a slightly or completely different way.
There's always the possibility that it is just some mythology without deeper meaning, that it represents garbled memories from pre-literary times. It might be encoding something we don't understand or just collectively misremembered stories or even just gibberish that came to be seen as significant purely by tradition or repetition.
We don't really know all that much about these peoples who lived at the early stages of our current post glacial stage of human society. We have a lot of data, to be sure, but very little in the way of a coherent interpretation for it all. In fact, the vast majority of the cuneiform tablets that have been digged up haven't even been examined properly yet, as in transcribed, translated and analyzed.
We have a few glimpses of the culture of Sumerian and some of it is this odd lists of names and numbers. I mean, even calling them "kings" is anachronistically projecting a very recent concept of Medieval Europe into a past at least 3 times as distant from as as the very earliest tribal leaders that came to be termed 'kings'. One common title used translated as 'king' (I am not sure it is written in these name lists) is lu-gal. It means 'big man', or magnate.
Hell, Sumerian is a language isolate. We interpret it largely based on context from later vocabulary borrowed by Semitic languages such as Akkadian and more recent descendants in Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and so on... Studying ancient Sumer and ancient Egypt is very very close to studying alien societies. We share very little with them other then happening to inhabit the same planet. We only understand Egyptian writing because some stone inscription had the same text in common late antiquity Greek, and ancient Egyptian written in hieroglyphics, and a script believed to be its more 'cursive' form.
Switching away from Python would not fix this. EVE Online runs its world without instancing or shards, meaning you cannot scale out the simulation when a single zone is overcrowded. Pretty much every other online game avoids this problem by making it impossible to have thousands of players in the same area because networking every players' actions to thousands of players is always problematic
Even if this person is South Korean and didn’t just adopt a pseudonym as a fig leaf, that’s not an affirmative defense against being a white supremacist.
The evidence is prima facie, it’s right there in the name. “14” is a famous-enough racist dog whistle it’s got a Wikipedia page, and when paired with “white forever” it ceases to be a dog whistle.
> Hardly, it's quite a clear relationship and exercised constantly - if you do the math re: share classes and look at what a corporation actually does.
Look at the stock market. Out of billion trades maybe one is related to actual ownership of actual company. Shares are mostly casino tokens bound to success of a company (or rather the perception there of).
> In democratic countries, we pass laws and let that do the talking. If the gov't owns direct shares, whoever is in charge of the gov't is de-facto the 'controller' of them, eh?
Democracy works great among unbiased rational actors who share information. A utilitarian quorum is roughly the loss minimizing decision. The problem is we have biased irrational actors sharing misinformation. The representative system we have is even worse, the indirection between public quorum and decision makers creates a fertile bed for corruption and negative decision bias.
Maybe someday we'll have direct democracy paired with voting certification for specific issues.
How can you say freedom of speech is improving when the government has just declared a blog hosting service to be terrorists because of the speech of the blogs hosted there? Is this satire?
Better heads prevail - this is a good start and the right decision. The agent/bot is controlled by some entity, ergo that entity is responsible for everything it does.
I relate that to how a Physician's Assistant gets their authority to treat patients from the Doctor they work under. The Doctor's credentials are on the line if their PA screws up.
